The loss dropped Straily to 1-2 and gave him 10 earned runs in 9 1/3 innings over his last two starts, pushing his ERA up to 7.27 through 26 innings this season. If he takes his regular turn in the rotation, he'll face the Rangers again next week, this time in Arlington.

"He’s good," manager Eric Wedge told MLB.com. "He said it was pretty sore this morning, but he feels good and [trainer Rick Griffin] felt he got him in a good place after the game last night and he’s feeling good today, so we should be fine."

Wedge added that he expects there to be no changes to Hernandez's preparation for his next start Sunday.

Hamels is in the midst of a definite cold streak to open the season,. He has already matched his loss total from last season in just nine starts. His ugly record isn't all the result of bad luck and poor run support either. His 4.61 ERA is a career-worst. Hamels is struggling with his control or the first time in his career, walking 3.81 batters per nine innings, while only striking out 7.46 per nine.

At this point, there do not appear to be any physical reasons for Hamels' struggles. His average fastball velocity is sitting at 91.5 according to FanGraphs.com's PITCHf/x data, actually an improvement over the 2012 season, so it is not like we can point to some obvious mechanical flaw that is causing his pitches to lose their life. He is also throwing a similar proportion of his pitches inside the strike zone: 42.6 percent in 2013, 43.8 percent in 2012.

At least if he were struggling with his arm speed or showing a tendency away from pitching in the zone, we could try to diagnose what is wrong with Hamels. At this poin t, Fantasy owners simply have to hope that he is a few small corrections away from living up to his manager's still-lofty expectations. 

Chamberlain started Tuesday's game for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He threw one scoreless inning and allowed two hits without striking out a batter.

Aviles, who has three HRs this year, went 1 for 3 with a walk in the game. He recorded his first hit since May 11 at Detroit. Aviles only has 64 at-bats this season. 

Swisher took Hamels deep for a two-run blast, his sixth of the year, in the fifth inning. He finished 1 for 5 with two RBI and is batting .273. 

The 32-year-old Swisher has recorded at least one base hit in nine of his last 10 games and has three homers and six RBI over that span. He has raised his average nearly 20 percentage points over that stretch.